Originally Posted by
FlyerJ
That’s exactly what I meant — gate-check them at the jetway (and whatever the Q400 equivalent is for Encore flights). If a crew is doing YYC YVR YYC YEG, the crew bags could come off each time ... but if the crew doesn’t pick them up from the jetway, the bags are left sitting at the gate (ie where the gate check bags go) so they just get reloaded at each stop.
I'm thinking flight crews are apprehensive to gate check their crew bags, why I don't know....it would free up a lot of the overhead bin space in the forward cabin for the "guests"...